This week’s edition of Looking Back at the Week contains articles, commentaries, columns, and other work by San Diego Free Press regulars, irregulars, columnists, cartoonists, at-large contributors, and locally and nationally sourced writers on National Poetry Month, Trump’s fraudulent voting fraud tales, the 16 trying to replace Issa, Weber’s police accountability bill, former UFCW employees speaking out against Kasparian, and lots of other grassroots news & progressive views from San Diego’s feisty, all volunteer, slightly funky, community news site.
National Poetry Month curated by Anna Daniels:
What Poems Do
By Sonia Gutiérrez
Paper Bag
By Igor Goldkind
‘They Feed They Lion’ by Philip Levine
By Anna Daniels
Helter Swelter
By Amy Fan
San Diego Free Press Columns:
Progressive Activist Calendar by Doug Porter
Why Trump Tells California Voter Fraud Stories | Progressive Activist Calendar April 6 – 17, 2018
The Starting Line by Doug Porter
Meet the 16 Candidates Racing to Replace Darrell Issa | 49th Congressional District Election Snapshot
Immigration Advocates Say Yes to California Values in Escondido As Trump Pumps Up His Base
Assemblywoman Shirley Weber’s Police Accountability Bill Couldn’t Come at a Better Time
County Sheriff, District Attorney Races Heating Up
Under The Perfect Sun by Jim Miller
Back to the Spring Rituals of Baseball
Geo-Poetic Spaces by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
Driving Through Desert
El Machete Illustrated by Eric J. García
Trump Lawyers
Looking Back at the Week by Brent E. Beltrán
Looking Back at the Week: March 25-31
Video Worth Watching by Rich Kacmar
On This Day in 1957: BBC Coverage of the Record Setting Spaghetti Harvest in Ticino
Bluebird – Charles Bukowski
When is Local TV Not Really Local? Sinclair Broadcast Group’s ‘Must Run’ Content
Oklahoma Teacher Vents About Classroom Conditions to Reporter
Rev. Al Sharpton On MLK: He Had A Vision Beyond His Time
‘We Real Cool’ – an Animated Imagining of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Poem
Ethiopian Jazz Master Mulatu Astatke: Yekermo Sew
San Diego Free Press Regular, At-Large, National and Locally Sourced Contributors:
Dear Ohio: An Open Letter to the Bellwether State, Part 4
By Joni Halpern
Breast Cancer and Screening Info Removed from Government’s Women’s Health Website
By Jen Hayden / Daily Kos
Oakland is California’s Destroy Public Education Petri Dish
By Thomas Ultican / Tultican
The Science Can No Longer Be Ignored: Legal Cannabis Access Reduces Opioid Abuse and Mortality
By Paul Armentano / Alternet
“Things That Make White People Uncomfortable”: Michael Bennett’s Essential New Book
By Jessie Hagopian / Common Dreams
Former UFCW Employees Urge Local Democratic Party to Stand With Women
By Rosy Miner, Isaura Garcia, Odett McAdams, and Debbie Principe
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